DRC: back to school maintained in the areas affected by Ebola Orientale Province

 | Last update August 27, 2012 at 12:50 
  The government has announced the continuation of the school year to 3 September in areas affected by Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the Eastern Province. According to the Minister of Health, on a working visit to Isiro, scientists ensure that the epidemic is in its downward and there have been no new cases since four days. Felix Kabange Numbi wants to reassure worried parents who do not send their children to school.

"First, the WHO has never prohibited the movement of people and goods in areas Ebola epidemic. Second, since the beginning of the epidemic, no action has been taken to confine children in their homes or in their plots, "he said.
The Minister of Health also announced the first day of school, organizing a day of awareness about modes of transmission and means of protection of children against Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
Felix Kabange Numbi also invited the coordination of schools to organize awareness days in the same direction with the national association of parents, then with the prefects and teachers.
Before leaving Isiro, the Minister of Health officially handed over drugs and other protective equipment and sampling for health zones of Isiro, Dungu, Pawa, Viadana, Wamba and Gombari.
Since August 17, the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified fifteen patients Ebola in DRC, ten died  http://radiookapi.net/actualite/2012/08/27/rdc-rentree-scolaire-maintenue-dans-les-zones-touchees-par-la-fievre-debola-en-province-orientale/